9 would be sweet on that, could have bought one myself last year, but bought a f2 lightning instead.

BUT, be careful, if your a competent sailor sailing them powered up loads the fins and fin box to the max.
Next fin I break I think I'll convert the lightning to tuttle box.

I used to have one of those, great boards. Only sailed it with a 7.5m back then.

I've found an 8.8m with a Mistral goes nicely, the 7.8m is a little hard to get the board to rail. The old raceboard sails have wayyyy more bottom end, I tried an old 1996? 6.4? and it had more low end than my 2009 7.8m. The slalom/race sails of today are focussed on top end. A couple of brands do dedicated raceboard sails e.g. Tushingham, Severne, that have more bottom end and you can adjust the downhaul on the fly. A big tushy lightning is a good cheap option if you can find one.

Sounds like a plan

Everyone seems to be out on modern boards these days, wouldn`t have thought there would be much demand for these big boards.
Surely there would be some of these boards stowed away in qld not being used?